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| Original Title: | Demigods and Monsters: Your Favorite Authors on Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson and the Olympians |
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| ISBN: | 0979233143 (ISBN13: 9780979233142) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Camp Half-Blood Chronicles |
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Released just before the March 2013 feature film Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters, this new edition is updated through The Last Olympian, and includes several brand new essays!The #1 New York Times bestselling Percy Jackson series—The Lightning Thief, The Sea of Monsters, The Titan’s Curse, The Battle of the Labyrinth, and The Last Olympian—features a dyslexic boy who discovers he is the son of a Greek god, the target of mythical Greek monsters, and the center of a prophecy that could change the balance of power in the world forever. In Demigods and Monsters, YA authors take on the series' Greek gods, demigods, monsters, and prophecy, to add insight and even more fun to Riordan’s page-turner series.
The book also includes an introduction by Percy Jackson series author Rick Riordan that gives further insight into the series and its creation, and a glossary of ancient Greek myth, with plenty of information on the places, monsters, gods, and heroes that appear in the series.
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| Title | : | Demigods and Monsters: Your Favorite Authors on Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson and the Olympians Series (Camp Half-Blood Chronicles) |
| Author | : | Rick Riordan |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 190 pages |
| Published | : | April 30th 2008 by Borders |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Mythology. Young Adult |
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Ratings: 3.88 From 4148 Users | 186 ReviewsCommentary Of Books Demigods and Monsters: Your Favorite Authors on Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson and the Olympians Series (Camp Half-Blood Chronicles)
Original Link to the review at my blog Le' Grande Codex - here HAPPY RELEASE DAY! Presenting Demigods & Monsters: Your favorite Authors on Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson and the Olympians Series (edited) by Rick Riordan. Here is the summary of the book:Released just before the March 2013 feature film Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters, this new edition is updated through The Last Olympian, and includes several brand new essays!The #1 New York Times bestselling Percy Jackson seriesThe LightningI admittedly have a very on-off relationship with the Percy Jackson series. I probably saw The Lightning Thief in a Popular bookstore a long long time ago. Unfortunately, the only thing I remembered was a tagline that went something like "half-boy, half-god, all hero". How I managed to find the series again is something I still don't understand.And when I finally read the first book, well I loved it! But then, left the series alone (I don't actually own any of the books - I think my sister has
This book did not add any original content.Just a rehash of the already mediocre books but from another point of view.I was quite disappointed.
It was bit empty, lacked true content. Not really enjoyable.
The product description is purposefully a touch misleading. This is really a collection of essays by other young adult authors discussing various aspects of the setting and writing and deriving lessons and discussion topics for young adults. There is no additional fleshing out of the setting through stories or fiction. Not all of the descriptions of this book make it clear and it was especially hard to get to the truth of the content from the kindle description. Some of the essays were
ARC received through NetgalleyHere's a little note to those of you about to pick up this: unless you are a huge, huge fan of Greek mythology, you will not enjoy this.This book is comprised of essays analyzing Percy Jackson and the mythology within it. As a college student, I have slaved over similar essays and can appreciate the hard work these authors have put it in order to write those essays. But frankly, the highlight of book was Rick Riordan's introduction. Don't get me wrong, a couple of
I found the author's introduction endearing, how he created Percy Jackson in order to validate his second grader's ADHD and dyslexia-- that they had divine origins. This section is one I think I will use in further teaching, it explains how and why myths are inherent to our society and the relationships between authors and their own texts as well as the ones they analyze. Ok, so that was about the best part of any of the essays. I did find the glossary of mythological people and places a useful
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